Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-07-28
Ordinance No. 147.
Published July 81, 1871

| AN ORDINANCE to prohibit the sale of intoxi
eating liquors as a beverage in the city of Dodge
City, Kansas.
| Be it ordained by the Mayor and CoUpcilmen q,
the city of Dodge City, Kansas:
SECTION l. Any person or persons who shall
directly or indirectly sell, barter or give away
any spurious, malt, vineous, fermented or other
intoxicating liquors within the corporate limits OF
the city of Dodge City, Kansas without first hav
ing procured druggists permit therefor from the
Probate Judge of Ford county, Kansas, according
to the laws of Kansas shall be deemed guilty of 3
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars
PROVIDED HOWEVER, That such LIQUORS NAV be
sold within said city for medical. scientific and
mechanical purposes, as provided by the laws OF
the State of Kansas.
| SEC. H. All liquors mentioned in Section one
OF this Ordinance, and all other liquors mixtures
thereon by whatever name called, that will produce
lntoXlcat1on, shall be considered and held to be
intoxicating liquors within the meaning of this
Ordinance.
SEC. III. 1t shall be the duty of the Marshal.
Assistant Marshal and policemen having notice
or knowledge of any violations of any of the pro-
visions of this Ordinance, to at once notify the
city attorney of the fact of such violation and to
furnish him the names of any witnesses within his
knowledge by whom such violation can be prov
en-, who will cause such person or persons to be
| brought before the Police Court and dealt with
according to the provisions of this Ordinance.
SEC. Nv. Any person or persons who shall be
the keeper or inmate of any place where intoxi-
eating liquors are sold, bartered given away as
a BEVERAGE or where persons permitted to re-
sort for the purpose Of drinking intoxicating liq-
uors as beverage within the corporate limits of
the city of Dodge City, Kansas, shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanOr and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than
ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
SEC. V. Every person within the limits of the
city Of Dodge City, Kansas, who shall, directly or
indirectly keep or maintain, by himself by as
sociating or combining with others, or who shall
in any manner aid, assist, abet in keeping or
maintaining, any club rOom or other place in
which any intoxicating liquors is received or kept
for the purpose OF use, gift barter or sale Is Il
beverage, or for distribution division among the
members OF any club or association by any name
whatever and every person who shall use, barter,
sell or give away, or assist, abet another in
bartering, selling or giving away, any Intoxicating
liquors SO received kept, shall be deemed guilty.
OF misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof,
shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars.
Sec. VI The giving away of Intoxicating lou
Ors, any shift device to evade the provisions
of this Ordinance, shall be deemed violation of
this Ordinance and punished according to Section
one of this Ordinance.
SEC. VII. The treating or giving of any intoxi-
eating liquors to any minor, by any person, other
than the father, mother or guardian of such minor,
or physician for medical purposes, shall be I'M
lawful and any person violating the provisions of
this Section, within the limits of the city of Dodge
City, Kansas, shall be deemed guilty of a misde,
meanOr and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars
SEC. VIII. Any physician who's lawfully and
regularly engaged in the practice of his profession
business within the limits of the city of Dodge
City, and who, in case of actual need, shall deem
any of the liquors mentioned in this ordinance
necessary for the health of his patients, may give
such patient written or prin ed prescription
therefor, or may administer the same himself ;
but no such prescription shall be given liquors
administered, except in case of actual need, and
where in his Judgment the of Intoxicating
liquors is necessary And every physician who shall
give such prescription or administer such liquors
in violation OF this ordinance, and every physician
who shall give to or write for any person a pre-
scrptiOn for intoxicating liquors. for the purpoes
of enabling or assisting any person to evade any
of the provisions of this ordinance, for the pur
pose of enabling or assisting any person to obtain
any intoxicating liquors for beverage, or to
be sold or disposed of in any manner in violation
of the provisions of this ordinance, shall be deem
ed guilty of amisdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined in any not les than ten
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
Sec. TX. In prosecutions under this ordinance
it shall not be necessary to state the kind of
liquor sold, and shall not be necessary to describe
the place where sold, and shall not be necessary
to state the name of the person to whom sold, and
it shall not be necessary in the first instance for
have permit to sell intoxicating liquors for the
purpose excepted by the laws of the State of Kan
sas.
SEC. X This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force on and after its publication once in the
Dodge City TINES.
Passed the council July IL, 1887.
Attest GEO. F. JONES, Mayor.
Cifv Clert